A series of small bombs that exploded in Bangkok on August 2 on the margins of an Asean summit appear to have been planted to cause panic and embarrass the government but also point to unhealed rifts in Thailand

Nobody knows where Hong Kong’s rolling protests will take the commercial, semi-autonomous enclave, but its youth are mobilized, its government has dug in and its unlikely anything will ever be quite the same again

The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee are moulding their medals from recycled, discarded electronic waste, following the example of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games

At the recent 34th ASEAN Summit held in Bangkok on 22 and 23 June 2019, ASEAN leaders said they were committed to conclude negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by the end of 2019.

Country Portrait

April/May 2016

THE ART AND CRAFT OF GUIDING THE CENTRAL BANK

Prasarn Trairatvorakul, recently retired governor of the Bank of Thailand, reminisces on a meaningful career.